[8420] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Independent Milnet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Sirbu)
Thu Nov 18 13:10:19 1993
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 13:08:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Marvin Sirbu <ms6b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Cc: macnabr@cc.ims.disa.mil,
In-Reply-To: <9311181443.AA29034@hp.uai.com>
> That's the short version of our DNS experience with a MILNET site --
> and it's not a small site. Unless they are the exception, the "bit of
> work" you suggest, Brad, will be insurmountable. The administrators
> of machines on MILNET are struggling with configuring the
> straight-forward DNS right now.
Whatever the difficulties that a small group of administrators would
experience in arranging to maintain the use of standard email addresses,
it is nothing as compared to the wasted effort that would be expended by
tens of thousands of users who would struggle to find the right
incantation to reach desired mail correspondents. I agree that this is
a terribly short-sighted proposal,
Marvin Sirbu
CMU
